James macdonougii



(Specimens.)

J. MAUDONOUGH. DISTINGTIVEV PAPER.

Patented Mar. 3, 1891.

Fl E l- WNW/memo UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES MAODONOUGH, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

DISTINCTIVE PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent N0. 447,336, dated March 3, 18 91. Application filed SeptemberlZ, 1890. Serial No. 364,800. (Specimens) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J AMES MAoDoNoUeH, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Distinctive Paper; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to certain improvements in what is generally known as a distinctive paper, and has for its object to produce paper designed to be used for bonds, bank-notes, checks, or other securities which shall possess a distinctive character and which may be at the same time a safety paper, whereby said securities can be easily and read ily identified, and by means of which paper possessing individual characteristics can be supplied to the consumer by the manufacturer at small cost.

To this end my invention consists in a paper having incorporated Within it during the course of the manufacture thereof amultiplicity of planchets, and Iwish it to be understood that by the term planchets I mean pieces of paper or other material cut or punched from sheets of manufactured paper or other suitable fabric or material to form fiat or plane surfaces of any desired shape, and these planchets maybe cut or punched from colored or uncolored sheets, and said planchets may be incorporated within either a sheet of paper of uniform color or variegated color, and in the latter case the planchets preferablyliewithin the colored portion of the sheet. The planchets in each sheet may be all of the same color or of-different colors, or of the same shape or different shapes, or of both different colors and shapes, all of which will be hereinafter described and specifically pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Wherein- Figures 1 and 2 represent sheets of paper made in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 3 is a section of the same, the planchets being shown as enlarged.

In manufacturing my improved paper I take the paper-pulp such as is ordinarily used in the manufacture of this class of paper, and as it comes from the pulp vat or reservoir and passes out upon the apron I incorporate therewith a multiplicity of planchets. The planchets are preferablyintroduoed into the pulp in such manner that they shall lie within the same plane as the finished sheet of paper and lie wholly within the body-of the pulp and be covered upon each side with a layer of the pulp, the planchets being visible to the eye upon each side of the finished sheet of paper; but they may be intimately mixed with the pulp before it passes to the apron orscattered over the surface of the pulp as it passes over said apron.

In order that each individual consumer may possessa paper possessing characteristics to be found in no other paper, I contemplate using planchets of different shapes or configurations-as, for example, square, round, oval, star, or other shaped planchets, or they may represent figures or letters or any desired geometrical or fanciful shape, or planchets of two or more different shapes may be incorporated in the same sheet, or, again, planchets of different colors or combinations of colors may be employed. Thus one kind of paper may have incorporated within it red planchets, another blue,a third yellow, and this method may be employed until all the different colors and shades of colors have been exhausted. Then planchets of one color-such as red, for example-can be employed, cut or punched into difierent shapes, such as round, square, triangular, star-shaped, or any other Wellknowri geometrical or fanciful shape, or a multiplicity of planchets of differing colors may be employed. In one paper red, white, and blue planchets may be used, in another blue and red, in a third green and yellow, any combination of colors desirable being employed; and, again, the planchets may be all of one color, but distributed or disposed within the pulp in such-manner as to form different figures within the pulp-such as parallel stripes, curved or waved lines, &c.-thus localizing the sam'e;- or, again, planchets of different colors or different shapes or of both different colors and shapes may be disposed within the pulp in like manner, the result being that by using different colors and shapes and different combinations of colors and shapes and disposing the planchets of such different colors and shapes or combinations of colors and shapes in the manner above de scribed I am enabled to produce an absolutely unlimited number of different varieties of paper, each of which can be readily and easily distinguished from the others.

In practice I may introduce the planchets into the body of the pulp by means of tubes or nozzles which project within the body of the pulp as it passes from the pulp reservoir or vat onto theapron, and I prefer to mix the planchets with a small quantity of pulp before introducing them into the sheet of pulp designed to form the finished sheet; but I may scatter the planchets indiscriminately upon the surface of the pulp-sheet or mix them intimately with the pulp before it passes out upon the apron.

In some cases I may color the pulp with which the planchets are mixed preliminary to their introduction within the sheet in such manner that the planchets will lie within a colored field within the sheet, differing from the color of the sheet itself, or I may at the same time the plan chets are introduced within the sheetintroducecoloring-material, asi milar effect being produced in both cases.

Referring to the drawings, the letter A indicates the paper sheet, and B the planchets.

Vhat I claim is- 1. A distinctive paper for bonds, notes, checks, or other securities, consisting of a sheet of paper having incorporated therewith a multiplicity of planchets, substantially as described.

2. A distinctive paper for bonds, notes, checks, or other securities, consisting of a sheet of paper having incorporated therein a multiplicity of planchets of a color diifering from said sheet.

3. A distinctive paper for bonds, notes, checks, or other securities, consisting of a sheet of paper having colored portions and having incorporated therein a multiplicity of planchets.

4. A distinctive paper for bonds, notes, checks, or other securities, consisting of a sheet of paper having incorporated therewith a multiplicity of planchets of different colors.

5. A distinctive paper for bank-notes, checks, bonds, or other securities, consisting of a sheet of paper having incorporated therewith a multiplicity of planchets of a predetermined shape.

(5. A distinctive paper for bonds, notes, checks, or other securities, consisting of a sheet of paper having incorporatedtherewith a multiplicity of planchets of different shapes.

7. A distinctive paper for bonds, notes, checks, or other securities, consisting of a sheet of paper havingincorporated in portions thereof a multiplicity of planchets.

I11 testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JAMES MACDONOUGII.

\V'tnesses:

TOURO ROBERTSON, J. K. MYERS. 

